BIS publishes strengthened intervention process to drive up standards in further education
30 May 2014 03:45 PM
Details of the process
to tackle underperformance in further education have been published today (30
May 2014).
Details of the process to tackle
underperformance in further education have been published today (30 May 2014)
by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
The Further Education (FE)
Commissioner intervention process for Colleges and Institutions was outlined in
August 2013 in Rigour and Responsiveness in Skills.
Today’s publication
- Intervention in Further Education: The Strengthened Intervention
Process - sets out the role and purpose of
the FE Commissioner and FE Advisers, how the intervention
process is operating in practice and how we will be communicating when and
where the FE Commissioner will be intervening.
Skills and Enterprise Minister
Matthew Hancock said:
Further education is a driving
force in enabling people to get the skills they need to find work or to further
their learning to gain better skills. I am determined that we continue to drive
up standards, embedding rigour and quality.
Today’s publication
highlights the important work of the FE Commissioner who, along with
his FE Advisers, is playing a key role in turning around
underperforming colleges.
From today BIS will
also be publishing summaries of the FE Commissioner’s findings
and conclusions from the individual assessments. These summaries will enable
governing bodies and senior executives in all FE providers to learn
lessons from the FE Commissioner’s experiences and help them to
ensure learners get the high quality provision they deserve.
The FE Commissioner
and five FE Advisers were appointed in 2013. FECommissioner, Dr
David Collins, assesses those FE Colleges and FEInstitutions
that have failed an Ofsted inspection, fallen below minimum standards or have
inadequate financial health or management. The FECommissioner then advises
Ministers on the actions individual colleges and institutions need to take to
address these concerns. Based on this advice, Ministers charge colleges and
institutions with making changes to their leadership and governance, and their
delivery model in order to improve performance.
Notes to
editors
- Go to Intervention in further education: The Strengthened Intervention
Process and to read the summaries of
the FE Commissioner’s reports.